i live in the boston area too... you think this will be even more delayed in boston? i actually wanted to try it..

nextel18 said:
i live in the boston area too... you think this will be even more delayed in boston? i actually wanted to try it..

come to the dark side nextel18 and join cingular.. we could use someone with your PTT skills and expertise

(shh dont tell the guy above.. but how long is it taking you all to connect? mines ave around 9 to 10 secs)

hey, i already was a cingular and att wireless customer and i didnt have a great experience... i didnt really have good coverage here especially in-building..

i will just try their push to talk solution..

lol ok.. shh we will keep it a secret..

As far as i've heard, our entire market (Maine, Mass., New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island) is supposed to be launching for customers on the 17th but our COU lines are supposed to be active before that.

I've used the PTT training lines and it takes between 5-7 seconds to connect. It's pretty good. I had nextel and it wasn't that much faster. Pretty comparable. The phones are definitely better with cingular, though. The d357 is a great phone so far.

wait one second.. you are saying that it takes 5-7 seconds to connect, but you used nextel and it wasnt that much faster? the problem is, lol, nextel has a sub-second connection.. sub-second is faster then 5-7 seconds..

well, yea the phoens are better, however, with nextel all of the phones have ptt on it, but with cingular you have to buy specific phones to have ptt. that is a problem that i think might face them just like it faced verizon and sprint.

do you think many people will switch to cingular with this awful delay?

(let us be honest here)

when i had cingular my service wasnt that great..

remember, the ptt is on kodiak's platform which uses voice channels so if there are any problems with towers and the voice side, ...
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nextel18 said:

well, yea the phoens are better, however, with nextel all of the phones have ptt on it, but with cingular you have to buy specific phones to have ptt. that is a problem that i think might face them just like it faced verizon and sprint.

not to mention their PTT product is crap itself.

nextel18 said:
do you think many people will switch to cingular with this awful delay?

yes. it's only an INITIAL connection. it you PTT someone with nextel, and they don't respond to the inital call in the first few seconds, what is the difference?

nextel18 said:
remember, the ptt is on kodiak's platform which uses voice channels so if there ar

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"not to mention their PTT product is crap itself."

17 million people tend to differ.

"yes. it's only an INITIAL connection. it you PTT someone with nextel, and they don't respond to the inital call in the first few seconds, what is the difference?"

lol.. you will find out in the matter of a second if the person is busy or not. this point is kinda a non-event and its pointless.


"which is an advantage if anything. since it uses voice, it allows customers to use the web while PTT'ing. you can also use call waiting while using it as well. my friend has a nextel phone through work, and do you know how many times i get that annoying "please wait while we locate the nextel subscriber" crap?"

call waiting with push to talk? lol. ver...
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call waiting works.. we tested it to see what happened. if your ptting, and someone calls, you can switch back and forth, it also works the same way if you ptting someone and another one ptt to you, you can switch back and forth all day if you wanted. Thats one advantage i've noticed over placing calls..

The initial connection takes between 5-7 seconds, once connected there is virtually no delay. Once connected, it IS faster than nextel.

To be realistic, i'm not saying that this is going to drive people to cingular, but I believe that if they play their cards right and learn from VZW and Sprint's mistakes, they just might be successful with this.

From everything I hear, we are supposed to have almost ALL PTT phones by Q2 2006.

I'd like to see it work, but I'm not setting high expectations yet.